People in Sports: Yanks Get Hart to Fill dh Role

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The Yankees bolstered their right‐handed hitting yesterday by purchasing Jim Ray Hart from the San Francisco Giants for an undisclosed amount of cash. Hart, a 31‐year‐old third baseman and outfielder who has been prone to injury since coming up the Giants in 1964, will be used mainly as a designated hitter.

His career batting average is 282 with 157 home runs. The 5‐foot‐11‐inch slugger spent most of last season with Phoenix of the Pacific Coast League, hitting .323 with 18 homers and 77 runs batted in. After joining the Giants for the final month of the season he underwent an operation for removal of a cartilage in, the left knee.

So far this season, the Yankees have used Ron Swoboda and Celerino Sanchez as the right‐handed designated hitter. Swoboda is hitting .091 and Sanchez .250. One player will be dropped from the roster when Hart reports.

The National Football League has hired Carl Marasco as an administrative assistant to Pete Rozelle, the commissioner. His work will deal mainly with waiver transactions, trades, contracts and draft choices. Marasco made a name for himself as a amateur scout in pro football.

He and his brother, Pete, annually selected and ranked by position 500 college seniors in advance of the draft at a cash expense of about $100, as compared to $250,000 for the average pro club. Their results were spectacularly good, good enough for Rozelle to hire the former insurance company claims adjuster.

Gary Huff of Florida State, who led the nation in passing in his junior year, signed a three‐year contract yesterday with the Chicago Bears, who made him their secondround draft choice. No financial terms were announced, but the star quarterback had skid he would play in the Canadian League if the Bears failed to meet his demands.

Bobby Charlton, one of Britain's great soccer stars, announced yesterday he was retiring as a player, ending a 20‐year association with Manchester United. The 35‐year‐old forward, who led Britain to the World Cup in 1966, will take a managerial course in the sport during the summer, but has not signed with any club yet.

“I shall miss playing,” he said. “Everybody does. But have never been a great advocate of player ‐ managers and I certainly don't want to play for any other club when I become a manager.”

Jim Lonborg, who pitched in the American League for eight years before being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies last winter, lost to the Mets Sunday, 2‐1, because John Milner hit a two‐run homer in the first inning.

With the count three balls and no strikes, Lonborg grooved a pitch that Milner hit over the right field fence. “They don't swing at 3‐0 pitches in the American League,” said Lonborg. “That's not done at all, except in rare occasions. You can almost always tell when it's coming.”

Dave Kingman, a first baseman‐outfielder, pitched two innings of mopup relief for San Francisco against the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday, giving up two runs, but he is not excited about doing any more hurling. “There is no way that I see myself as a pitcher,” he said. “If they want to use me as a mopup man, that's all right, but I'm not at all serious about wanting to pitch. And if they say stop right now, it will be perfectly all right with me.”

Gene (Red) Roberti, the captain of the Iona College basketball team in 1953 when Richie Guerin, the former. Knick, led the team to an 18‐3 won‐lost record, was named to replace Jim McDermott as head coach of the Gaels. Roberti had been assistant to McDermott for six years.

Lee Trevino, who dropped out of school at the age of 14 to go to work to help support his family, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from New Mexico State University at the school's commencement exercises on May 12. The pro golf star has done all right financially without a highschool diploma. He was the leading money‐winner on the Professional Golfers’ Association tour last season.

Yesterday was the 85th anniversary of the birth of the late Jim Thorpe, and President. Nixon issued a proclamation calling for appropriate observances to commemorate the “magnificent athlete” who starred in football, baseball and track and field.